My Sister’s Keeper is about a 13-year old girl, Anna, who has a sister Kate that has leukemia. Anna was made in a Petri dish with the exact DNA type that is needed to be used for her sister’s transplant of bone marrow and blood cells. She decides that helping out her sister is cutting into her personal life and thinks that she should be able to make decisions about her own body, instead of her parents forcing her to do the transplants. Anna files a lawsuit against her parents to regain the ownership of her body. Anna’s mother doesn’t believe that Anna is being serious, so she tries to talk her out of the case. Her dad, on the other hand, supports her through this and thinks that Anna is old enough to be making her own decisions. At the end of the book, you find out the real reason Anna files this case and what happens to the two sisters.
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